Page 10-Saturday, July 25, 1981-The Michigan Daily CONTROVERSY SURROUNDS OPERA TION Patient receives artificial heart HOUSTON (AP)-A 36-year-old Dutchman, only the third person ever to receive an artificial heart, remained in critical condition yesterday, as the Food and Drug Administration said Dr. Denton Cooley should have sought federal approval before implan- ting the device. But Cooley, saying the man otherwise would have died, insisted he had violated no regulations. The artificial heart has not been approved by the Food and Drug Administration. But a spokeswoman for St. Luke's Hospital said the FDA allows such equipment to be used in life-threatening situations. The FDA said it was looking into the case. An FDA sppkesman, William Rados, had said earlier yester- day that Cooley probably "should have"' obtained FDA approval before using the experimental device, but later said he was mistaken. The patient, W.A. Meuffels, a former excursion bus driver from The Netherlands, was listed in critical condition with probable irreversible brain damage. Cooley said he implanted the artificial heart when the patient's own heart failed after coronary bypass surgery. THE OPERATION was the third reported use of an artificial heart in humans. The first trial of such a device was made by Cooley in 1969. The plastic heart, a small pump connected to a roomful of machinery, is intended to keep a patient alive only until a donor can be found for a heart tran- splant. The heart and its earlier versions have been tested in 200 calves. After the operation, Cooley's Texas Heart Institute issued a nationwide appeal for a heart donor. Doctors said the donor, preferably a man, should be 18- to 45- years-old with A-positive blood. Hteart donors are usually accident fatalities who suffered massive brain damage. COOLEY SAID the length of time the man can live on the artificial heart is "indefinite." Previously a patient has survived up to three days using a device. The heart transplant surgery pioneer said the man had no chance of living without the plastic device, and he said even if the man gets a succestful tran- splant, chances were better than 50 percent that he. suffered brain damage. Cooley's first artificial heart operation drew criticism from the National Heart Institute and others who said it was a violation of government guidelines on human experiments. I Art of economics Local merchants develop the skills in their craft during the Art Fair, trying to lure as many of the thousands of potential customers that descend on the city as they possibly can. _ J Guardsman charged inshootirg of 4 soldiers during maneuvers Hearing set for. spy'case (Continued from Page 3) THE POST-reported on a secret report, prepared for the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Inter- national Operations, that was "leaked" to columnist Jack Anderson. The report is still classified information. "At least 45 Taiwanese intelligence officers were present in the United States at the beginning of this year (1979)," the 1979 article stated. "Ten to 25 of them are believed to be on U.S. college campuses, where they engage in infiltration, surveillance, and the organization of anti-Peking demon- strations. "The intimidation has worked to deprive the targeted emigres, some of whom were naturalized U.S. citizens, of constitutional rights of freedom of speech, assembly, and association that are guaranteed to all U.S. resglents," the Post reported. CHEN, WHO .was found dead in Taiwan last month, was a permanent resident of the United States. Furthermore, the article said, "A major conclusion of the study was that none of the agencies most directly in- volved in the activities of foreign in- telligence agents - the CIA, the FBI, and the State Department - had direct responsibility for monitoring political harassment by foreign governments of their own nationals in the United States." According to the secret report, "The FBI does investigate specific complain- ts of criminal violations but it makes no systematic effort to ascertain the ac- tivities within the United States of 'friendly' foreign intelligence ser- vices." CARNEGIE-MELLON President Richard Cyert, who will testify at the hearing this Thursday, said he will not be able to testify that there are in fact, spies on his campus. Cyert said he's not even certain that surveillance is illegal. "We're just hoping to keep the issue alive," he said, adding that "we have some other strong evidence that we can't divulge" right now. It is not clear that Shapiro will attend the congressional hearing, or which federal agencies will brief him. The presidents of Carnegie-Mellon and the University of Minnesota; twq other schools involved in the Taiwanese Socident, say they hav.enotbeen briefed by federal officials. 4 I GRAYLING (UPI) - A warrant was the force of a half-stick of dynamite, issued yesterday for the arrest of a were supposed to have been used Michigan National Guardsman in con- during the training exercise. nection with the wounding of four fellow guardsmen during war maneuvers this THE STATEMENT said that live week at the 122,000 acre Camp ammunition was accidently used in the Grayling. guardsman's rifle instead of military The Crawford County Sheriff's depar- issue blanks. It was not known how the tment, in a joint press release with live ammunition came to be in the rifle. Michigan Army National Guard Police officials refused to identify the Military Police, said that the incident guardsman for whom the warrant was which occurred Wednesday night was issued. accidental" but a warrant has been Police said they were led to believe issued for a guardsman for the shooting was accidental becausb a "discharging without malice a blank adaptor on the M-16 rifle that was firearm." used to shoot at the four men was AUTHORITIES SAID bullets from a recovered intact on the rifle. M-16 rifle shattered the windshield of a "Under most circumstances with the jeep carrying the four men par- plug-like device in the rifle, the barrel ticipating in the war maneuvers. would have exploded when live ammo A spokesman for the camp, Jack was discharged," the release said. Westbrooks, said no live ammunitio]Ror, "simulator" fire, which explodes with SGT. JOHN Wimberly, 28, of Lan- sing, was in fair condition Friday at Lit- tle Traverse Hospital in Petoskey following surgery Thursday for the neck wound believed, caused by a rifle bullet. Medics on the scene said Wim- berly's neck injury was extensive enough that "you could put your fist in, it." The other three soldiers, who were among 7,200 guardsmen and women completing two weeks of annual training at the northern Michigan camp, were treated and released at Mercy Hospital. They suffered minor injuries from being struck by shattered glass. They were identified as Sgt. Ronald Kline, 25, of Lansing, Sgt. Lawrence Leach, 29, of Westland and Pvt. William S. Cole, 22,;df'Williamsto.'n I 4